The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendencyamong landlords and persons of property tobuild,toimproveand beautify theirgrounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  Principles of Political Economy.

   What is poetry?† The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

-Ruskin,John
  Modern Painters, vol.3, pt.4, ch.1.